Licensed to Lie: Chapters 7-8

  Chapter 7: Supreme Reversals April 27, 2005. Ms. Powell was invited to sit in on the oral argument before the Supreme Court by Maureen Mahoney. Assistant Solicitor General Michael Dreeben argued the case for the government. The Supreme Court included Chief Justice...

Licensed to Lie: Chapters 5 & 6

  Chapter 5: Nailing the Coffins The judge made the following errors: At the prosecutors’ request, he expanded the already broad definition of conspiracy (which requires an “agreement”) beyond all prior boundaries by adding “or understanding.” He did not give the...

Licensed to Lie–Chapter 4

  Chapter 4: The Nigerian Barge Deal:  No crime here, but people are going to prison. In going over the indictment of Jim Brown and his colleagues, Ms. Powell noted that there were no real criminal offenses in the indictment. Instead, it cobbled together parts of...
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